Farmer protest: Airtel slams tower damage allegations; says Jio adopts bullying tactics to meet goals

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has sent a letter to the telecom department slamming Reliance Jio’s allegations that channel partners of rival telcos were inciting and provoking agitators involved in tower disruption.

“The baseless allegation made by Jio that Airtel is behind the farmer agitation to “sabotage” their network and to force customers to switch to Airtel is simply outrageous,” Airtel’s chief regulatory officer, Rahul Vatts, said in letter to the DoT secretary Anshu Prakash dated December 28.

“We have seen a history of Jio going to any length to make baseless allegations, adopt bullying tactics and use intimidatory behaviour to suit their purposes and meet their goals. This is another such instance,” the telco said in the letter.